KVK Traffic Flow 1
I’ve mentioned before here that I used to freshwater fish, a lot. Canoe fishing at daybreak was the best, although there were days when nothing seemed alive in places where other days the waters fizzed with life and I could have several meals of fish in the boat before most people were awake. The same […]
Something Different 67 B
Part A was here. Here is the start of the actual trip on the Integrated Tug Barge (ITB) that led to this blog. Giant pusher tugs like the ITB Major Vangu were sometimes referred to as K-boats, because they ran between key river cities of Kinshasa and Kisangani. Waterfalls above Kisangani and below Kinshasa blocked […]
Something Different 67 C
Parts A and B are here. Today’s post concludes this story of my Congo River trip, 1973. Wednesday midday the ITB and all the barges finally stopped for the first time in a place called Bolobo. No dock per se existed, but the lead starboard barge was near enough the bank that long planks were […]
CB 2019 K
Daybreak finds the storms past and we continue the long haul up Lake Huron. Olive L. Moore passes with Menominee. Moore . . . the hull . . . was launched 91 years ago! Samuel de Champlain pushes Innovation into Alpena, MI. As is true of many Great Lakes vessels, tug Champlain has had a […]
Something Different 67 A
How did I get interested in tugboats? Here is an autobiographical and long response, even though it’s only part 1 of 3, or in this case, A of A B C. Bear with the scintillating prose, but I possess nary a single photo from this period. To answer the frequently asked question above, I’ve […]
Thanks to George Schneider 2
George Schneider regularly sends me photos, comments on posts, and shares lots of info on all manner of vessels. Here was the first installment. I owe it to him to catch up a bit on his photos. Including ITB Groton in the post yesterday prompts me to start here, with ITB Moku Pahu. When […]
Retro Sixth Boro 8
One satisfying thing to me about these retro posts is noticing how much the local fleet has changed. All these photos I took in November 2008. Coral Queen was scrapped at least eight or nine years ago. Maersk Donegal has had two name changes since 2008, now know as Santa Priscila, and no longer calls […]
Presque Isle: Thousand-footer ATB
For starters, a question: how is this pronounced . . . rhyming with “wheel” or “while”? I’ve already been told each is the correct one. Erie Trader is a big ore carrier, but Presque Isle is larger, with capacity of 57,500 tons! For comparison, that’s twice the capacity of Edmund Fitzgerald. Anyone know her […]
Port of Erie PA 1
The port of Erie is protected behind an “almost island” called Presque Isle, pronounced in French to rhyme with “wheel.” Click on the map to interact with it. So guess which “laker” was behind Presque Isle the other day? Presque Isle, of course, and that’s the name of both the tug and barge. Both parts […]
Really Random Tugs 41
Sea Power has been lurking in and around the sixth boro the past few days, and I will continue trying to get some good photos of her, but on 9-22-16 Jack Ronalds up at the Canso Canal caught these photos of her as she headed into Lake Erie to pick up her barge constructed in […]
tugster: a waterblog 